On Tue, 2026-07-21 at 06:38 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Tim via users writes: > > > > > And what about 600 times to same/similar spots in the drive? > > > > There are > > > > various applications that do lots of writes. Web browsing, > > > > audio > > > > editing, logging, compiling... > > > > > The drive firmware will remap writes internally so you aren't > > > writing to > > > the same place every time. > > > > Including modifications to the same data? > > Correct. "Wear leveling" is the buzzword here. As far as the OS is > concerned > it's writing to the same sector #n, but internally the drive spreads > the > writes around, it maintains an internal map of physical versus > logical > sector. The conclusion is still the same: every SSD in existence has > an > internal suicide clock that will tick, it's not a question of if, but > when. > The drive's internal firmware does a lot of work to make sure that > the clock > keeps ticking, reliably.
I maintain that "suicide clock" means there is an actual counter, rather than an expected lifetime. Unless the hardware has a real counter per physical sector, which I doubt but I suppose is possible, then it's simply wrong to call it a clock. poc -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
